Salisbury girls win District CC team title, Cairo and Higbee also qualifies runners to State

Tuesday

Oct 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM

Chuck Embree, MI Sports Reporter

Salisbury, Cairo and Higbee will all have athletes competing at the 2012 MSHSAA Class 1 State Cross Country Championships to be held Saturday at Jefferson City. The runners qualified for state based upon finishing in the Top 15 at the District 2 meet held Oct. 27 at Bowling Green.

This is the second year that Salisbury has offered cross country for their students, and this is the first year that Northeast R-IV School at Cairo has offered the sport.

The first four runners in the varsity girls race completing the 3.1 mile course at Bowling Green were from Salisbury High School, and the lady Panthers won the District 2 team championship with just 20 points.

Sophomore Savannah Ratliff was individual girls district champion with a time of 21:32. Ratliff’s teammates that followed her to the finish line were senior Amber Linneman (21:57), Ratliff’s twin sister Sydney (22:10) and junior Maria Weimer (22:19). Meanwhile, other Salisbury girl results were; junior Caitlin Hammons (11th, 23:24), Emma Parker (20th, 24:46) and Kristen Bloss (30th, 27:26).Morgan Gittemeier, a junior from Cairo, qualified for state by placing 8th with a time of 22:56.